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A biologist named Katharine Payne visited the elephants at a zoo. She felt the air
around her throbbing like the rumbling of thunder. When she felt the air throb. she
noticed that the skin on the foreheads of the elephants moved.
Also. the elephants seemed to communicate without making any noise. They did not
make a sound. but they would start and stop moving at the same time . Payne knew that
some animals. such as whales. made sounds too low for humans to hear. She thought.
" Maybe elephants. like whales. use low sounds to communicate with each other."

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reproduction
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technology (tek NAHL uh jee)

The Chapter 1 vocabulary words are listed above. Review the definitions of these words. Then
draw a lin.e to match each word in the box with its definition.

An observation is something you see or notice. A fact is something you know.

Fill in the first box with something Payne observed the elephants doing. Fill in the second box
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